Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twice a year I have its Roentgen-picture taken, to avoid surprises. The last time such a picture was taken was on Dec. 3 last. The picture reveals that my heart is 10 mm. longer in one direction and 10 mm. narrower in the other than the hearts of fully normal people of my age, but otherwise it does not show anything out of the common or wonderful...
...bonds bearing interest of 3⅜% or less-a privilege now limited to 2% gold bonds. Senator Glass estimated his amendment, offered as a substitute for the House's Goldsborough Bill to inflate commodity prices by deflating the dollar, would bring out $995,000,000 in new currency. Twice the House refused to accept this rider to the Home Loan bill. Thrice the Senate refused to accept the bill without the rider. After hours of night haggling, the House finally, with only four votes to spare, gave in to the Senate and both bill and rider went...
Soon Italy's famed Artiglio II, champion treasure-hunting ship (TIME, July 4, et ante), was called into action. Her divers reported that the Promethee lies on an even keel in 230 ft. of water where the current is exceedingly swift. Twice the divers' telephone connection with the Artiglio was ripped apart by the rushing waters. They expressed a professional opinion that it will be impossible to raise the Promethée, said that they found her hatches open, conjectured that an explosion may have ripped open the Promethée's stern, thus causing...
...skyscraper to have double-deck elevators. 7) The dome on the planned Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. With a 168-ft. diameter, it will be world's biggest. 8) The world's biggest single unit grain elevator at Albany, N. Y., covering eight acres, holding twice as much grain as all the elevators in New York Harbor. 9) The world's largest new type gas tank in Syracuse...
Juno Marin, twice married, has landed in the sanitarium after running the gamut of a gay society in which people ate to live, lived to drink and drank to forget living. In the first flush of their romance Vondorn takes up drinking again, and with that his tale is as good as told. How he and Juno run off to live and decay together in a hut in the desert, how Vondorn slaves at his book, how he visits the nearby Beldoro Observatory, prepares to take up residence with Juno there, is only the long prelude to the ultimate cough...